
NEWS N VIEWS
Welcome
to fellow collectors of telephone cards & gift cards worldwide. We can
offer advice and include and information of interest as available.
Send any stories, questions, news of new issues,
pictures and fairs & events worldwide, to be included.
SUMMER SALE World Phonecard Catalogues half price....
NEW
ISSUE CATALOGUES 2011 AVAILABLE ON CD

Indonesia 3 magnetic 1998-2001
Indonesia 4 Microchip
Ask your usual supplier / dealer
The TCC of GB has been dissolved and is now been reformed as the Telephone
Card Club of United Kingdom.
With great sadness, Steve
Hiscocks a founder of collecting telephone cards, who contributed so much to
our hobby, died suddenly 4th Oct age 74.
An interesting site on Facebook
... ‘Club Phonocard’ for world gossip news and stories !
Sberatel was another
successful fair, held in Prague, Sept 2010. Stamps, coins,
medals, gems and minerals, postcards, phonecards, banknotes,
bonds and stocks by 230 exhibitors worldwide. Don’t miss 2011! http://www.sberatel.info
Starbucks café first opened in Seattle USA in 1971, over the
years they have continued to branch out worldwide. Starbucks cards are
available to buy and load with credit so you can purchase in store without
cash. Starbucks also have a reward system when you register your card on line.
Cards
are issued various times a year with a different design, they have become highly
collectable and some hold a high premium. Some countries issue cards in special
folder or sleeve.
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The official
story of…The change from
optical cards to smartcards in BT payphones in the UK……

A blast from the past….BTP430-431. The
meaning of KAIZAN The last BT
promotional phonecards produced by Landis & Gyr
for BT.